AuthorTopic: And now for something completely different .... (Read 1044 times)

.... at the end of April a local recorder group are planning to start a baroque music group, playing four part harmonies. Lutes, early music instruments and melodeons welcome the friendly souls have asked me along as they love the resonant bases of the Liliputs and the rich treble notes .... (thanks to Theo who restored them ) I've posted today as if I left it until tomorrow it might be thought an April Fools joke Will report back at the end of the month on how it goes

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On the bracing North Yorkshire Coast

You hum it pet.......I'll play it......but not necessarily in the same key 🎶

Have they got the full recorder range? There were only three in our house when I was growing up - Sopranino, Descant and Treble, since as I was a boy, I didn't have the right physical qualifications to get recorder lessons at school. My Dad could probably not have afforded a bass recorder anyway! Sounds fun.

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I'm a Yorkie!My other melodeon's a fiddle, but one of my Hohners has six strings! I also play a very red Hawkins Bazaar in C and a generic Klingenthaler spoon bass in F.!! My other pets (played) are gobirons - Hohner Marine Band in C, Hohner Tremolo in D and a Chinese Thingy Tremolo in G.

It was fun Three sizes of recorder, soprano, alto and tenor, a cittern, an autoharp and D/G Lilliput with C/G Anglo as backup. The tunes, played in either three or four part harmony, were Gathering Peascods, a Bourée, a 16th c Bransle and a Breton dance tune, the melodeon fitted in really well both joining in on the melody line or being used with single bass notes as a drone under the higher pitched instruments ..... next week Steve the leader is thinking of doing some tunes from the time of Henry VIII

modified to add the newspaper advertisement as requested by Steve the group leader ...... he likes melodeons

« Last Edit: June 04, 2018, 08:51:35 PM by AnnC »

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On the bracing North Yorkshire Coast

You hum it pet.......I'll play it......but not necessarily in the same key 🎶